Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

At the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Inc (NIBR), our mission is to discover innovative medicines that treat disease and human health. The best and brightest scientists need cutting-edge, state-of-the-art computing systems.

Pharma in general is currently going through a major transition like that in financial services over the last 30 years or so. Essentially scientists have to look at 10,000 times as much data to discover a new drug and they aren't going to be able to do it in Excel.

We are designing and building the platforms now that will turn into the platforms and solutions the drug discovery industry will not be able to function without 20-30 years from now. That includes data platforms and plumbing as well as business logic, analysis and visualization. Every solution we put in the scientists hands has a chance to solve a problem that has never been solved before. It's also fun to remember that we have no sales department and no marketing department: our customers are 5000 scientists who are trying to solve a problem. If we can find a solution they will use it.

People joining now get many of the benefits of both a large company (stability, pay, benefits) and a startup (open to change, ability to wear multiple hats, challenging technical problems to solve, creative and intellectual environment) at the same time. Think Google Labs but without the project shelving!